Erich Marcks

Erich Marcks (6 June 1891-12 June 1944) was a General der Artillerie of Nazi Germany during World War II.

Biography
Erich Marcks was born on 6 June 1891 in Berlin, German Empire. He served in the army of Wurttemberg during World War I, and Marcks served in the Freikorps paramilitary after the war. In 1939, he was promoted to Brigadier-General of the Wehrmacht under Nazi Germany, and in December 1940 he led the German 101st Light Infantry Division during the German invasion of the Balkans in World War II. On 26 June 1941 he lost a leg on the Ukraine front against the Soviet Union, so he was transferred to the reserves in France. On 6 June 1944, his birthday, he led German forces against the Allied Powers on the Cotentin Peninsula in France during Operation Overlord, and on 12 June he was mortally wounded in an Allied fighter attack near Marigny while on a frontline inspection. He was only six days past the age of 53 at death.